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Young Eagles (Paramount). Whatever merit there is in this picture is due to the nerve and Smartness of a man whose name is not mentioned in the cast—Dick Grace, who doubles for Charles ("Buddy") Rogers in the air scenes. Grace, who has doubled for stars in dangerous moments of many cinemas, who has broken 69 bones including neck and back, is an aviator so expert that he contracts to smash up planes at specified distances, usually only a few yards, from the grinding cameras (TIME, Nov. 11).
Young Eagles may be Grace's last doubling job. His contract called for several smashups and some difficult stunting in an air-battle. Most doubles die on the lot, and Grace, feeling that he has tested his luck pretty thoroughly, has told friends he will probably quit now. It is a trivial picture, a standard program air-feature about the chivalrous rivalry of a German and an Allied aviator. Rogers manipulates his long eyelashes successfully and the cameraman and doubles who risked their lives in the later sequences were not seriously hurt. Typical shot: international spies stealing Rogers' clothes after he has been drugged at a party in Paris.